On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, David VanHorn wrote:

>> You must be an american, in the USA-citizen sense? On this side of the
>> pond we (OK, maybe that's only me) say "don't attribute to anything more
>> complicated what can be attributed to simple human
>> error/lazyness/greed/etc". Sort of Occam meets Murphy.
>
> Guilty as charged, and a navy brat at that.
>
> But, why would they change it?
> I've looked it up through google, and others have documented the division
> 222 version, so I'm not imagining that.  It may be the movie I got it from,
> it was a lot of years ago.

Given the number of bozos who actually dial numbers which appear in 
novels and scifi stories, I would expect the ITU to issue a set of 
numbers that are guaranteed NOT to work, for worldwide use ...

Peter
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